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Consulting May 11, 2016 Volume 116, Number 12 An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 Page 32 INBOX 5 FROM THE EDITOR 7 ON THE CAMPUS 13 Inclusivity progress report Panel on Wilson legacy Bogle fellows Tuition, budget for 2016–17 Strategic planning: Regional studies STUDENT DISPATCH: Poker club SPORTS: No more sprint football Road to Rio: Donn Cabral ’12 LIFE OF THE MIND 29 Political parties Hopeful note on climate change GS ’13 Research briefs Elgin P RINCETONIANS 43 Alumnae create web series Conference brings Jewish Katherine alumni back to campus Page 46 Boyer; Q&A: Michael Brown ’87, D. discoverer of planets War Allen story: Fuller Patterson ’38 by CLASS NOTES 51 photo Mr. Boswell Goes to Corsica 32 Samuel Stanhope Smith 38 Base, MEMORIALS 69 The birth of modern political charisma Was Princeton’s seventh president a racist Force CLASSIFIEDS 77 required a candidate with good looks, an or a progressive — and should it make a Air aura of power, and the right PR. difference now? THAT WAS THEN 80 By David A. Bell *91 By Nicholas Guyatt *03 Maxwell PAW.PRINCETON.EDU Records, Toll’s Treasures Reunions Guide Group The brilliant maps Browse the schedule and illustrations of Lt. of events of this year’s Fighter Henry C. Toll ’42, an major-reunion classes. American aviator and 475th future architect, add The Election of ’56 Visiting Normandy left: rare splashes of color to Gregg Lange ’70 draws In a poignant spring- from the reams of typescript a lesson from Adlai break tour, Princeton and black-and-white Stevenson ’22’s ill-fated students explored Bower; photos in one World second presidential bid: history and located Tim War II archive. Never bring a thesis to a the gravesites of Top: beauty pageant. fallen alumni. On the cover: Illustration by Enrique Moreiro 01paw0511_TOCrev1.indd 1 4/26/16 1:24 PM THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Reflecting on Jewish Life at Princeton ast month I had the pleasure of participating in “L’Chaim! To Life: Celebrating 100 Years of Jewish Life at Princeton.” The conference, organized by Princeton’s Office of Alumni Affairs, APPLEWHITE Lwelcomed nearly 900 alumni and their guests back to DENISE campus to join faculty, staff, and students for three days of engaged conversation, learning, religious services, and shared meals — in short, to enjoy many of the activities that are constitutive of Jewish identity. What a long way we have come from the humble Shabbat service that started it all in 1915! That service, organized by Frank Glick ’16, a popular student and captain of the football team, and David Kempner ’17, marked the first time that Jewish students had gathered for worship on the Princeton campus. Five years later, the University recognized the first Jewish student organization, and Jewish worship became a formal part of campus life. Friday night services even attracted some non-Jewish students eager to get the weekend’s Chapel Talking with L’Chaim conference participants in Richardson requirement out of the way. Auditorium on April 15, 2016. Still, Jewish students faced many challenges in their efforts to fit in at Princeton. They found themselves subject hut used for meals during the Jewish festival of Sukkhot) to harsh admissions quotas, stigmatized as “unclubbable,” on the front lawn of Tiger Inn. Last month, seven of the and derided as “grinds” for their commitment to academic 11 eating clubs hosted Passover Seders. achievement as a means of upward mobility. Such Another important step toward full inclusion of the institutional and social challenges persisted well past the observant Jewish community at Princeton has been the middle of the 20th century, culminating in the infamous completion in 2015 of an eruv, or physical boundary, which “dirty bicker” of 1958, in which 23 sophomores, 15 of encompasses the campus and surrounding streets. The eruv whom were Jewish, were denied bids to eating clubs in is an important accommodation to the realities of modern spite of a commitment by the clubs to accept all applicants. life, allowing observant students, faculty, staff, and guests However, the years following World War II were already of the University to carry items within its boundaries on bringing important changes to higher education, as the the Sabbath. GI Bill opened the doors of colleges like Princeton to a great Princeton has grown tremendously in the past 100 years influx of qualified students, including Jewish students, from as a place where Jewish students and scholars can thrive, diverse backgrounds. With increasing Jewish enrollment but its old reputation persists in some corners. I learned came the push for more official recognition, and the Student that first-hand eight years ago, when I began identifying Hebrew Association was founded in 1947, becoming an as Jewish after discovering that my mother had hidden official chapter of Hillel in 1948. her own Jewish past throughout her lifetime. My research The presidencies of Robert Goheen ’40 *48 and into family history connected me to a network of cousins William Bowen *58 also brought significant changes to the whom I had never known. Some of their friends expressed University’s efforts to build a diverse and inclusive campus amazement that the provost of Princeton University — of community. Bowen made it a point to recruit Jewish all places! — could turn out to be Jewish. students to Princeton. In 1988, Harold Shapiro *64 became I smiled and told them about Harold Shapiro’s the University’s first Jewish president, and he continued presidency and the vibrant Jewish life on Princeton’s the progress his predecessors had begun. In 1993, Shapiro campus today — but also I admitted that Princeton had an opened the University’s Center for Jewish Life, for which exclusionary past. The L’Chaim conference took a similar fundraising had begun in the Bowen administration. approach, combining joyous celebration with honest Students like Marcus Lester Aaron ’20, who gathered remembrance of, to borrow the title of one alumni panel, the first minyan at Princeton in 1919, would be astonished “Jewish experiences across the generations.” That kind of by the variety and energy of the offerings at the center and candor — about exclusivity, about discrimination, about around campus today. On any given Friday evening, one the students, faculty, and staff who struggled bravely for can attend Shabbat services in the Conservative, Orthodox, equality, about what we have achieved and about problems and Reform traditions at the center. Both the center and that remain — will be essential as we continue Princeton’s Chabad of Princeton, located just off campus, offer lively efforts to build a community that talented people of all Shabbat dinners, and students sometimes flow between the groups and backgrounds can embrace as their own. two, eating their meal at one and showing up at the other for dessert. Jewish life is evident throughout Princeton’s campus, including on Prospect Street. I was both amused and delighted the first time that I saw a sukkah (a temporary PAW PROVIDES THESE PAGES TO PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER ’83 20160511.indd 2 4/20/16 12:31 PM WE HELP THOSE WHO DO GOOD DO WELL. Rediscover what makes us a different kind of financial partner at the new TIAA.org INVESTING ADVICE BANKING RETIREMENT BUILT TO PERFORM. CREATED TO SERVE. C28789 Thank You! Career Services would like to thank all of the alumni, parents, staff and faculty who partnered with us to help students and each other with career exploration and development. Career development is complicated. Community makes it simpler. http://careerservices.princeton.edu/princetontcc Join the group! YOUR VIEWS KEEPING WILson’s NAME REWRITING THE MOTTO STUDENT ISOLATION Inbox FROM PAW’s PAGES: 11/27/73 SUPPORTING VETERANS THE WILSON LEGACY DECISION We and many other veterans of Re the trustees’ action on Woodrow military service in the Princeton Wilson 1879’s legacy: I am delighted with community were heartened by the this decision. Let’s not confuse pursuing news that the University is elevating its present goals, and dealing with present efforts to increase the diversity of the problems, with accurately remembering undergraduate classes by recruiting the past and those who played a role in veterans (On the Campus, April 6). it. Of course we should acknowledge While other selective universities have, all of the aspects of historical figures since the attacks of 9/11, actively sought — but we should begin with a deeper to matriculate the best and brightest of acknowledgement that human cultures, the 1.5 million young enlisted veterans attitudes, habits, and so forth have of the “Long War” against terrorism, changed immensely over the centuries. Princeton has lagged. To support the We should resist the temptation to University’s new initiative, we are in impose our attitudes and values on the the planning stages of forming what past. This is a very ungenerous attitude might be called the Princeton Veterans toward those who have gone before, Association, or P-VETS. Our goals are to: as well as reflecting a very unattractive leverage the strengths, talents, and arrogance on our part.